YTThumb

Probes every size — so you never save a grey placeholder

YouTube thumbnail downloader & metadata tools

Paste a link and get every thumbnail size that actually exists for that video — Max HD 1280×720 down to 120×90, plus vertical Shorts covers — with one-click downloads that keep the file exactly as YouTube serves it. Then read what the interface hides: a video's tags, its full description, its 11-character video ID and its permanent channel ID.

Sizes are probed one by one — a missing size is labelled, not silently replaced by a grey placeholder.

Nothing fetched yet. Paste a link above — the page reads only the public cover images and the video's public metadata, and it never touches the video file itself.

All 12 tools, grouped by what you need

Three groups: saving covers, understanding the sizes YouTube publishes, and reading the metadata stored with a video.

Thumbnail Downloaders

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Paste a link and save the cover — with a real availability check instead of a broken URL.

Thumbnail Sizes & Formats

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Max HD, HD, Shorts vertical and live covers: which sizes exist, and what to do when one does not.

YouTube Metadata Tools

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Tags, descriptions, video IDs and channel IDs — the fields YouTube keeps but no longer shows.

What this site does — and what it deliberately does not

It does

  • Fetch the cover images YouTube already serves publicly, and tell you which sizes genuinely exist.
  • Read the metadata stored on a video or channel page: tags, description, video ID, channel ID.
  • Hand you an untouched file — no re-encoding, no resizing, no watermark, no signup.

It does not

  • Download, convert or proxy video or audio files — there is no ripping feature here, by design.
  • Store your links, create accounts or keep history.
  • Claim any affiliation with YouTube: covers and metadata belong to the creators who made them.